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RE: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practic
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Ludwig, Mark |
Subject: |
RE: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8) |
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Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:28:12 +0000 |
> From: Juanma Barranquero, Thursday, June 27, 2013 9:02 AM
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Ludwig, Mark <ludwig.mark@siemens.com>
> wrote:
>
> > That said, the pop-up error really shouldn't need dismissal by the
> > user when there is either ALTERNATE_EDITOR or --alternate-editor. In
> > that configuration, it's not clear that the error should even be
> > reported -- except perhaps as a warning (to inform the user why the
> > alternate editor was launched).
>
> The error says that emacsclientw found a server file for a process it
> could not connect. That is useful.
I don't agree. Why is it useful to make the user click OK (the only
available button) /before/ launching the alternate editor?
> For example, emacs could still be
> running, just not attending to server connections for some reason.
> It's better to give the user the information *and* let him decide (by
> clicking on OK, or doing something else) how to fix things.
Let's say you're correct that there is a running Emacs that's not
responding, so the dialog information is reporting an "interesting"
situation. I claim that it /still/ doesn't matter, because
emacsclientw has made its only attempt to connect to the
supposedly-running server (which failed) and all the user can do is
click OK, after which emacsclientw will launch the alternate editor
(if any). If there were a "Retry" button, that would be /very/different.
What else do you think I can do before clicking OK? As far as
investigating what's wrong with a running Emacs, it doesn't matter
whether I look before or after clicking OK, because emacsclientw has
done whatever it's going to do to the running Emacs, and the alternate
editor (in my case) will be a separate instance of Emacs.
Thanks,
Mark
- Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Ludwig, Mark, 2013/06/19
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Richard Copley, 2013/06/26
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Juanma Barranquero, 2013/06/26
- RE: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Ludwig, Mark, 2013/06/26
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Juanma Barranquero, 2013/06/26
- RE: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Ludwig, Mark, 2013/06/27
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Juanma Barranquero, 2013/06/27
- RE: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8),
Ludwig, Mark <=
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Juanma Barranquero, 2013/06/27
- RE: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Ludwig, Mark, 2013/06/27
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Juanma Barranquero, 2013/06/27
- RE: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Ludwig, Mark, 2013/06/27
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Juanma Barranquero, 2013/06/27
- RE: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Ludwig, Mark, 2013/06/27
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Juanma Barranquero, 2013/06/27
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- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Jason Rumney, 2013/06/28
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Richard Copley, 2013/06/28
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Richard Copley, 2013/06/28